(Union Pacific issued the following news release on November 18.)
OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific has named Shane Keller general superintendent transportation services of its San Antonio Service Unit. The appointment is effective immediately.
As general superintendent transportation services, Keller, 35, is responsible for the safe operation of more than 1,500 miles of track in southwestern Texas with more than 1,300 employees who operate an average of 60 trains a day. The San Antonio Service Unit directly serves 166 rail customers.
The service unit is at the crossroads of Union Pacific’s Texas network with trains running north and south carrying traffic to and from Mexico as well as east-west transcontinental traffic.
When Keller was superintendent of transportation services at Union Pacific’s St. Louis Service Unit, safety improved as much as 40 percent in 2002 and 2003. He was transferred to North Platte, Neb. in August as general superintendent transportation services. The North Platte Service Unit is Union Pacific’s busiest corridor and location of the largest freight rail classification yard in the world.
He started with Union Pacific as a student intern in 1990 and was placed into the company’s management trainee program in Omaha in 1992.
He has held a variety of operating positions, including management and director positions in the railroad’s locomotive shops in North Little Rock, Chicago and Fort Worth. He was graduated from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in 1992 with a degree in electrical engineering.
Union Pacific Corporation owns one of America’s leading transportation companies. Its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad, is the largest railroad in North America, covering 23 states across the western two-thirds of the United States. A strong focus on quality and a strategically advantageous route structure enable the company to serve customers in critical and fast growing markets. It is a leading carrier of low-sulfur coal used in electrical power generation and has broad coverage of the large chemical-producing areas along the Gulf Coast. With competitive long-haul routes between all major West Coast ports and eastern gateways, and as the only railroad to serve all six major gateways to Mexico, Union Pacific has the premier rail franchise in North America.